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Category: Opera
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American Directors Bring Fresh Visions to Europe’s Opera Stages
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Lewis Spratlan, Who Took Winding Route to Music Pulitzer, Dies at 82
The New York Times – Music:His opera sat unproduced for decades. Then a piece of it garnered one of the field’s top prizes. Then it sat some more.
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A Tenor’s Secrets to ‘Lohengrin’: Golf and a Blunt Spouse
The New York Times – Music:Piotr Beczala, known as a charismatic singer of Italian operas, is challenging notions of what a Wagner voice should sound like.
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Review: Verdi’s Falstaff Is Back at the Met, Enlarging His Kingdom
The New York Times – Music:Michael Volle puts his noble voice to delightfully undignified use as the title character in Robert Carsen’s still fresh production of “Falstaff.”
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Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted
The New York Times – Music:In “Solomon,” performed elegantly at Carnegie Hall by the English Concert and Clarion Choir under Harry Bicket, the chorus is the star.
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Review: The Time for Prokofiev’s ‘War and Peace’ Is Now
The New York Times – Music:After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, this opera adaptation of Tolstoy seemed unperformable. But in Munich, it has become an urgent antiwar cry.
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Translating the Music of Trees Into the Sounds of Opera
The New York Times – Music:The tech-forward composer Tod Machover has made a chamber opera of Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” featuring Joyce DiDonato.
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‘Norma’ and ‘La Traviata’ Return to the Met Opera
The New York Times – Music:Sonya Yoncheva doesn’t fill out the long lines of “Norma” at the Met, while Angel Blue is a warm, sincere Violetta in “La Traviata.”
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Review: A Blunt New ‘Lohengrin’ at the Met Stars a Shining Knight
The New York Times – Music:The tenor Piotr Beczala sings with uncanny serenity and command in the title role of Wagner’s opera, directed by François Girard with little subtlety.
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A New ‘Lohengrin,’ Threatened by War in Ukraine, Comes to the Met
The New York Times – Music:François Girard’s staging, originally a co-production with the Bolshoi Theater, arrives a year after its Moscow premiere, which coincided with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Jessye Norman Rejected These Recordings. Should They Be Released?
The New York Times – Music:The new collection “Jessye Norman: The Unreleased Masters” raises artistic and ethical questions.
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The Met Opera’s New Season: What We Want to See
The New York Times – Music:With contemporary music dominating new productions and returning in some revivals, the Met is entering a new era of programming.